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Health care cuts
January 22, 2011,




Editor,


Included in Gov. Jerry Brown’s $3 billion in health and welfare spending cuts is a plan to end the adult day-care program. Many people use the service as a way to remain in their homes, rather than moving into far more costly nursing homes.


Nursing homes can cost as much as five times as much as In-Home Supportive Services. The number of skilled-nursing-center beds has dwindled through the years as IHSS’s success has grown at helping the elderly continue living independently.





Ted Rudow III,MA